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In the Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room
Post Subject: No compromises with Sweet SpotPosted by Romy the Cat on: 8/23/2012
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 noviygera wrote:
Is there a pill for that too? Seriously, it would be very interesting to hear what solution you come up with because I have converted from listening music solo to a small number of audience (friends). So much that I listen by myself much less often. I believe is not possible to make the sweet spot bigger but it is possible to adjust the room acoustics with new surfaces (walls or curved panels), objects, sound absorption and diffusion to make the room sound more balanced and sweet spot be "diffused". 

With directionality of horns it would be interesting to see what approach you use for this and how you treat room surfaces in relation to speaker and listening area location. One may say that there is no point to describe one room and use this as a guide for others, but with horns I believe it is not the case. If we have similar goals (diffusion of sweet spot in room) then certain techniques will take us in similar direction when comes to unfocusing the sound energy.

p.s. kids proofing is not just moving amps "away", believe me I have one year old son. they will pull cables, remove tubes when they cool down, push speakers, and play with turntables. Romy, do not worry about this stage yet because if you do... Trust me, do not worry about this yet.
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Actually I do not look forward to enlarge the size of the Sweet Spot. I personally do not feel that it is possible. The Macondo topology and the type of the horns Macondo use form the Sweet Spot as it is and any further efforts over Sweet Spot might lead to some larger Sweet Spot zone but will degrade what Macondo has been doing well. The larges size of sitting arrangement that I am organizing is not because I am considering making the perfect listening zone larger. In my listening room it will be still the very same optimum relatively narrow Sweet Spot confined to the size of a single chair. This single chair however will be virtual and will be located in the mid sit of 86’ couch. The rest table and chair will be there but they will be very much not optimum listing positions.

In my household it looks like only I care about the proper listening experience.  Amy listening posture is like a monkey on a tree and she sits with her legs up or hanging from palm tree with one hands. I still will have my properly located Sweet Spot and it will be no compromise in it of any kind.

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